Reaction to ESPN's Stephen A. Smith criticizing NBA players working in media | Draymond Green Show

What's up everybody? It's Draymond Green. Make sure you subscribe to the Volumes YouTube channel below so you don't miss any more of this great content going forward. I cannot sleep after games, so I've been up all morning. Then of course, Get Up came on, I watched. Patrick Beverley's been on. I tweeted some things about Patrick Beverley and how he's now speaking like the new media. And my brother Stephen A, has something to say about that.

Let me explain something to y'all.

Okay, talk to me.

I appreciate Draymond. That's my brother, I love him dearly. He's as real as it gets. I got a lot of love for him. I'm rooting for him. I root for him all the time. Just like I got love for his crazy self. But when you talk about new media, y'all need to watch y'allself.

Who?

Because let me tell you something, ain't nobody usurping this brother.

Okay.

Not from a basketball stand— I'm talking not from an athletic stand. I don't give a damn what player is out there. There's skills that come with doing this too.

Let me make this clear. Stephen A has a way and who he is that I think is absolutely special in media. I think is incredible. I think Stephen A is an original. I think Stephen A created a lane that not many people can go into and you have to tread carefully going into that lane. Because if you don't succeed in going into that lane, it doesn't look good. Stephen A can be Stephen A because that's Stephen A. But then when you try to like follow that, it's tough. That's— Stephen A is a tough act to follow. Like, you—

it's—

It's hard to explain. I think it's more so kudos to Stephen A, but he's a tough act to follow. He's tough for someone else to go try to copy on TV. And I think I see a lot of people do that. Stephen A, the new media is here and the new media is here to stay, my friend. Now, when you say going from a player to then, number one, I don't do this sometimes, Stephen A. You need to check out the Draymond Green Show. It drops twice a week. I don't just do this sometimes, baby. This is real. This is here to stay. This is going nowhere. So this is not a sometime thing. I put a lot into this, and I hope you understand that. And if you don't, that's okay, because you'll just continue to notice me, baby. You'll continue to notice me, Stephen A. But when I speak on new media— Stephen A, you got some new media in you too now. You not totally like those older guys that— that don't know how to give flowers and show love, Stephen A. That's not you. So when I speak on new media, you got some new media in you too, my friend, whether you know it or not. You halfway us and halfway over there. We accept you, Stephen A. We love you, my brother.

Big.

And in large part due to You got some of that new media, some of us in you. But the days of the old media is over, baby. We here, we coming to take over. That's why y'all got Pat Bev on every night. And like I said in my tweet, for those that didn't see the tweet, matter of fact, I'm going to read the tweet for you because on ESPN, they showed the first beginning of the tweet. But they actually didn't show the entire tweet. So I'm going to the tweet and I'm going to read it for you. Um, number one, because I think it should be heard, uh, and I— it was— I mean, I'm speaking on Pat Bev. I said, Pat Bev went on TV and got off to a bad start with the CP stuff. I've watched him a lot since. He's extremely knowledgeable and well spoken. Also now speaking like the new media. If you watch his segment this morning, you understand what I'm saying. They don't understand that he's speaking of LeBron, and this is about, uh, Windhorst saying, oh, LeBron would laugh at you comparing— no, LeBron wouldn't laugh at you mentioning Steph Curry with him because LeBron James would appreciate Steph Curry's greatness. It doesn't— you don't have to drag— like, they— you don't have to pull LeBron James down and make him out to be less To say you can start to mention Steph in that category because of his accomplishment, because his impact on basketball, because of the things that he's done. That doesn't make LeBron less of who LeBron is, but that's what the old media do because it's all about clickbait. It's not about true analysis and really what we getting into and showing love and that guy can be great and this guy can be great. They don't believe in that. It gotta be him over him. Yeah. The new media, we don't really operate like that. Is God's better in certain— yeah, of course. Like, come on now, of course we gonna speak it like we speak it because it is Bible, it is the gospel. We are going to speak it like that, but we're going to show love too. And Patrick Beverley showing love to Steph Curry and saying who he is, that does not mean LeBron James isn't who he is. That's just how the old media operate. This is the new media. We don't operate like that. We can give a guy flowers, and that's what Patrick Beverley was doing. And so I said, they don't understand that he's speaking of LeBron to show the magnitude that Steph should be mentioned. Not that he's bigger or better than LeBron. It's simply saying he's one of the GOATs. Because they want to say, oh, this guy's the GOAT and he isn't. He can't be. He one of the GOATs. They can only make one greater than the other. They don't like them being ghosts together. We give flowers. The old heads call it soft. You may have seen something from James Worthy the other day. KD commented on it. They call it soft. Yours truly, the new media. Draymond Green. I see his growth and it's good to watch. Now, what do I mean by I see his growth? I thought it was whack that ESPN threw him on every platform to get him to talk about Chris Paul, because at a certain point it went from personal dislike, it went from analyzing the game to personal things and personal dislike, and it shouldn't be that. And I thought Pat Bev learned from that.

Yeah.

And one thing I appreciated that Pat Bev just responded, by the way, I didn't see this. Jackson just showed me right before he sent it to me. And Patrick Beverley said, I know everybody didn't like what I said about CP, but I'm gonna stand on that. Again, which is why I tweeted what I tweeted about Patrick Beverley. 'Cause I appreciate people standing on what they say. I appreciate him not coming out and saying, oh man, I apologize. I shouldn't have said that about Chris Paul. Stand on it. And he stood on that. I appreciate it and I respect that. Stand on whatever you say. We're not apologizing. Stand on what you say. So I appreciate that and I respect it. What I wouldn't have respected if he came back and said, "Oh man, I'm sorry, Chris Paul." No, you said it, stand on it. I respect that. I just thought he shouldn't have allowed it to go personal because then people made everything that he was saying more about that and less about the great analysis that I'm watching up there, how he's breaking stuff down up there. He's been absolutely amazing. And everybody just pegged him with the CP thing as opposed to listening to what he was actually saying. And I think he's doing an amazing job. And when I say he's speaking like the new media now, how he broke down Steph Curry and LeBron James, that's the new media. That's what we do. It don't have to be him greater than him.

And so—

Stephen A, the new media is here, my brother, and you special. I'm not saying we gonna replace you. Like Pat Bell said, my vocabulary ain't up there with yours, Stephen A. But the one thing we do have, Stephen A, and you mentioned this, is we played. And that's why I don't agree with guys going up there trying to be you, especially guys who played. And I'm gonna get at this more when I'm done with these championships and I got a little more time to focus on other things. So jot this down, however you checkmark your stuff, know that I'm coming back here and you'll understand. But Stephen A, you didn't play, which is why you have to be who you are, and I respect it. I love Stephen A. I'mma tell y'all a funny story. Maybe a month or so, a couple months ago, I purposely picked a fight with Stephen A. He don't even know this. I picked a fight with Stephen A because I hear stuff around the world that, you know, people like, "Oh, Stephen A's a coward," or this, that, like, and the reality is you have an opinion on Stephen A one way or the other, which I'm all for. You're gonna have an opinion on me. Whether it's good or bad, you're gonna have an opinion. And that's how people are with Stephen A. And so some people's like, "Oh man, he just run his mouth cattin' and blah, blah, blah." And I always say, you know, and people come up to me like, "Oh, F Stephen A." And this, that, and like, "Oh, Stephen." And the first thing I say is, "I love Stephen A." Stephen A a real dude. Now I had an opportunity to pick with Stephen A recently, he don't know. And I did it because I wanted to prove to myself that Stephen A is who I think he is and not who people think he is. And that's a real one. So I pick a fight with him about the Defensive Player of the Year thing. Stephen A responds to me privately and says what he says. I'm not going all into that, but he did say something to me like, you can reach out to me whenever you need to. And I said back to him, I said, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But you said what you said publicly, so I'm going to respond publicly like I did. And I was picking a fight with him, picking a fight with him. He stood on his word like I thought he would, because that's who he is in my eyes. Stood on his word, said, "Oh, all good, my brother." Kept it bumping, kept it bumping. And we probably talked on the phone a couple days later. Exactly who I thought he was. Not, "Oh, this guy picking a fight with me." Exactly who I thought Stephen A. was.

So—

Stephen A, you got some new media in you, my brother, whether you want to accept that or not. You ain't on TV yelling stupid stuff like the Bad Dog. You on TV talking about what you talking about with facts, with incredible vernacular, with doing it the way only Stephen A can do it. You get your flowers from me, my brother. Yours truly, the new media. We here to stay, my friend. And you got some of us in you, whether you wanna accept it or not. You either accept it now, Stephen A, or we gonna make you accept it, baby. You gonna have to accept it at some point. So you might as well just get on board right now. 'Cause we accept you, Stephen A. You one of us, my man. Few mailbag questions before we get outta here. Talk to me, Jackson.

All right, from that NBA. @jacm3t, what's the biggest difference between this Warriors team versus the first Finals run aside from just general experience from you guys?

The difference between this team, I think it's a totally different makeup of a team. Like we have many more bigs then, but the game is totally different now. It's a very shooting wing spacing dominated type game. And so I think that's a big difference. I also think the mixture of youth and, experience. I can't state that enough. That's a very big deal. And the biggest difference is it's, like I said, it's us leading as the vets. It's not us being led by vets and we're kind of the young talent and the core that's being built around. Yes, we're still the core, but we're not the young talent anymore. And that's a huge, huge thing.

From @edo_thetruth @omghello_nasty, In your opinion, who are a few guys in the league that can actually guard all 5 positions, or are there any?

A few guys in the league that I think can actually guard all 5 positions, Giannis, LeBron James. I think Marcus Smart can guard all 5 positions at times. Now granted, he, He's a little undersized, and so to do that consistently as a guard is tough, but I think he can. PJ Tucker can guard all 5 positions. Bam Adebayo can guard all 5 positions. So there's some guys, there's definitely some guys for sure.

Last one from Koala Bear Moreto at Koala Moreto. Is there a tech in your career that you most enjoyed and most deserved? They're kind of different questions, but you can answer both of those.

Tech in my career that I most deserve or most enjoy? It's been a lot of technical fouls, my brother. It's been a lot of techs. Um, the one I enjoyed the most, I think my very first one will always be my favorite. I hit the 3 on Josh Smith and start talking crazy. Shout out to Smoove, by the way. We gotta have Smoove on the show one day. But I hit the 3 on Smoove and he played off me. That was my first 3 of my career. In typical Draymond fashion, I got a tech. It don't get much better than that, baby. It's hard to top. Your first field goal in the NBA, you get a tech? Come on, man, that's hard to top. I wasn't making no money either. I was sick about that fine.

Yeah.

I remember Richard Jefferson told me, I was getting texts and Richard Jefferson told me, he said, "Draymond, I know you don't want these texts and like it's hurting your pockets right now, but you can't stop getting these texts. This is who you are. It's going to make you a lot of money in this league. So just kind of look at it as an investment in yourself." It was hard to do when I was making not much money and living out here in the Bay Area, but he was right. I gotta give the credit to RJ, who's one of my vets, by the way. So yeah, I can't top that one. That's it, koala. Number one, the first one. I love y'all. That's it for this episode of the Draymond Green Show. I'll talk to y'all very soon. Actually, we'll be talking to y'all before we face off with whoever we face off with on Thursday, but we'll know who that opponent will be. Until next time, that's it. It's a wrap from the Draymond Green Show.

Peace. Peace.